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Audra McDonald honored by MIT

If something scares me, I have to do it,” says renowned actress and singer Audra McDonald in a short video that preceded her on-stage interview on Saturday at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has chosen McDonald as the recipient of … Continued

April 19, 2018
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Audra McDonald appears at MIT discussion, gala

As part of Audra McDonald’s duties as winner of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, the Broadway great — can you believe she’s won six Tony Awards? — sat down with Oskar Eustis at MIT’s Huntington Hall over the weekend.

April 16, 2018
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Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show

“Manufacturing Mischief,” which will have its premiere run on April 26 and 27 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts a mini-Chomsky onstage alongside Elon Musk, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx.

April 16, 2018

Audra McDonald honored with artist residency at MIT

With her incandescent soprano, Audra McDonald is usually the one doing the dazzling. But the Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress says it was she who was awestruck by the talent she encountered on recent visits to the … Continued

April 5, 2018
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Free Things to Do in Boston, April 2018

Performing the Present: Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in Conversation

March 30, 2018
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Young Artist Who Grew Up to Invent Neuroscience

Many creative scientists have artistic inclinations. The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, are a beautiful example.

March 30, 2018
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Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment

Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

March 29, 2018
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With György Kepes, photographs as experiments

From the start, photography has been binary.

March 28, 2018
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‘Islandborn’ taps the immigrant imagination

author junot díaz discusses debut children’s book

March 28, 2018
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At MIT, Mouse on Mars immerses listeners in ‘surround sound on steroids’

Whether through his work as one half of German electronic music duo Mouse on Mars or through his 2016-17 tenure as an MIT guest lecturer, Jan St. Werner has spent the better part of the past 25 years exploring the … Continued

March 22, 2018
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MIT Premieres Pedro Reyes’ Puppet Play with Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Tiny Trump

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce the world premiere of Manufacturing Mischief, a new satirical play by Pedro Reyes that features puppet characters based on Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk and “Tiny Trump.”

March 21, 2018
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Joan Jonas Endures With Her Strange and Entrancing Rituals

The American artist Joan Jonas stood before an enthusiastic audience in London late on Friday and re-enacted excerpts from some of her performances.

March 21, 2018
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Schubert Feeds the Hungry

Sunday’s Music for Food concert in MIT’s Killian Hall offered three contrasting chamber works within its theme of the year: “Schubert’s Vienna/Our Boston.”

March 20, 2018

Q&A: Meejin Yoon

For the fourth consecutive year, America’s MIT has been ranked the top university for architecture in the world. What does head of architecture Meejin Yoon think is its secret?

March 16, 2018
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Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party

Mouse on Mars, the brainy, playful, long-running, relentlessly inventive electronic-music duo from Berlin, had a different kind of rollout for its new album, “Dimensional People.”

March 12, 2018
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Artist Adam Pendleton’s Work Defies Categorization

At just 34, Brooklyn-based artist Adam Pendleton has proved himself capable of generating such phenomena.

March 6, 2018
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Tribute d’Amore

Last Saturday at Kresge Auditorium the annual Terry and Rick Stone Concert of the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) and the MIT Music and Theater Arts celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Boston recital debut of Marcus Thompson,  … Continued

March 1, 2018
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Violist’s career forever linked to MLK

One of only a few African Americans to find success in classical music, violist Marcus Thompson has garnered critical acclaim since the start of his illustrious career.

March 1, 2018
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Audra McDonald receives MIT’s Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts

Audra McDonald is this year’s recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, and as such she joined students and staff for a short residency.

February 16, 2018
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‘Art + Tech: A Citywide Collaboration’ casts a wide net over the Net

“Art + Tech: A Citywide Collaboration,” now rolling out in more than a dozen museums and universities around Boston, throws a wide, easy net over digital art, a medium so common that almost any American city could coordinate cross-institutional programming.

February 15, 2018
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Boston’s Cultural Institutions Explore How Technology Has Impacted Art

While the deCordova focuses on an evolution in video art, the MIT List Gallery in Cambridge focuses on the early stages of internet art with the use of bulky monitors and projection devices.

February 12, 2018
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A multimedia artist attuned to the zeitgeist

When Judith Barry was invited to make a new mural for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s façade, one image haunted her: a photo of people in an inflatable boat, shot from a drone.

January 26, 2018
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In Cantata Singers premiere, ancient lamentation yoked to modern pain

The Cantata Singers was founded more than half a century ago to explore the music of Bach, and the loyalty of its stalwart audiences is the kind of thing that makes Boston’s music scene unique.

January 22, 2018
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A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience

It’s not often that you look at an exhibition with the help of the very apparatus that is its subject.

January 18, 2018
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In ‘Lamentations,’ Peter Child ties biblical texts to current refugee crisis

“Lamentations,” a new work for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Peter Child, is a piece that resonates in a variety of ways with the history of the Cantata Singers, the group for whom it was written.

January 3, 2018
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